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Describing the moment of her capture, she said: ‘It was about llpm and we were very scared to hear shooting. We didn’t know what to do or where to run.

‘After some time we started seeing men in soldiers’ uniforms coming in the school by torchlight.

'We thought they were soldiers. They said they had been sent to evacuate us so we would not be harmed.

‘We followed them outside and they got us into a lorry. When they shouted ‘Allahu Akhbar’ [God is great], we knew they were Boko Haram.

‘We all started crying and begging for help, but they ordered us to keep shut or they would kill us.

‘They took us into the bush and we drove all night and in the morning too, until we arrived at a place where they asked some of us to cook, others to wash dishes, some to grind corn and other chores.

‘They kept insulting us and saying that we must stop going to school, that they were going to marry all of us to their people; that our teachers and government are unbelievers whom they would all kill.’

After her escape, Amina eventually
reached Damboa, a market town on the edge of the jungle, 50 miles from
Maiduguri, the capital of Borno State. In total, 50 girls are believed
to have fled after the kidnapping on April 14.

Schoolgirls Aminar Tsawur, right, and Martha, left, being reunited with their family after being kidnapped by the Boko Haram terrorists from their school in Chibok, Nigeria

Last night, counter-terrorism expert Robin Horsfall, a veteran of the SAS’s storming of the Iranian Embassy in 1980, said Amina would be a crucial intelligence asset in the hunt for Boko Haram’s leaders.

‘She’s got faces, languages, tribes, directions of movement, vehicles, a huge amount of vital information to pass on to the Nigerian military,’ he said. ‘Its officers are very capable, well educated and professional.

‘British Special Forces might play a role as technical advisers, in a bid to reduce casualties. But this is delicate ground.’

Defence sources have told this newspaper how, soon after the kidnapping, Nigerian President Goodluck Jonathan was assured by his military advisers that they could handle every aspect of the crisis. This was apparently why he turned down a British offer of SAS help.

He later changed his mind and at least 12 additional SAS soldiers have since deployed to Nigeria from their base in Hereford.

A majority of people surveyed by the Mail on Sunday said the SAS, pictured, should be deployed to Nigeria

Mr Horsfall added: ‘In the President’s defence, the Nigerian army and air force are accustomed to dealing with kidnap situations because these incidents happen a lot there.

‘But by now the girls are likely to have been split up as assets to be bought and sold.’

Last night, Enoch Mark, whose daughter and two nieces were taken by the gunmen, claimed that teachers at the school received a tip-off that the Boko Haram raid was going to take place.

Mr Mark, a pastor, said: ‘Some students whose parents were staff at the school, nothing happened to them because I was told that they were informed. So they checked out their daughters and sent them home.’

But last night sources in Chibok claimed some girls were not at school because they had been sent home to revise for their exams.

Yesterday, First Lady Michelle Obama said she and her husband Barack were ‘outraged and heartbroken’ over the abduction.

Making her husband’s weekly presidential address, she said: ‘In these girls Barack and I see our own daughters; we see their hopes and their dreams, and we can only imagine the anguish their parents are feeling.’

She was speaking after a Survation poll for The Mail on Sunday revealed that 56 per cent of 1,000 UK respondents believe Britain should offer SAS help with the rescue operation.